Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Columbus, OH

Iceflower tracks 176 stores from 77 ice cream & frozen treats in Columbus, OH. Whit's Frozen Custard grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt and Johnson's Real Ice Cream.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
77
Tracked stores
176
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ice cream & frozen treats

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Whit's Frozen Custard and Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Whit's Frozen Custard logo Whit's Frozen Custard - +15.0%
2 O Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt logo Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt - +3.5%
3 J Johnson's Real Ice Cream - 0.0%
4 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard - -3.1%
5 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -4.0%
6 G Graeter's Ice Cream logo Graeter's Ice Cream - -6.4%
7 D Dippin' Dots logo Dippin' Dots - -9.3%
8 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -11.2%
  • Dairy Queen
  • La Michoacana
  • Graeter's Ice Cream
  • Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
  • Johnson's Real Ice Cream
  • Whit's Frozen Custard
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

176 tracked store locations in Columbus, OH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (42)
  • La Michoacana (1)
  • Graeter's Ice Cream (12)
  • Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams (2)
  • Johnson's Real Ice Cream (7)
  • Whit's Frozen Custard (18)
  • Baskin-Robbins (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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